June 2026
Ethan Jin selected for the UCLA Summer Research Program
Undergraduate researcher Ethan Jin has been awarded a place in the UCLA Samueli Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP).
Our team builds computational and experimental tools for engineering the properties of inorganic materials through synthesis design and control of atomic-scale transformations.
Using DFT and Monte Carlo methods to understand how atomic rearrangements underpin materials functionality.
Shedding light on materials synthesis by using high-temperature X-ray diffraction to monitor reactions in real time.
Developing foundation models to accelerate simulations and automate the analysis of experimental data.
Undergraduate researcher Ethan Jin has been awarded a place in the UCLA Samueli Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP).
Members of the group traveled to Honolulu for the 2026 MRS Spring Meeting, where Prof. Szymanski gave a tutorial on machine learning and AI for materials characterization.
Our study of how cation vacancies mediate solar thermochemical water splitting in iron aluminate spinels is now published in Chemistry of Materials.